1 Peter 4:7

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1 Peter 4:7

But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.

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Therefore, get your minds ready for action by being fully sober, and set your hope completely on the grace that will be brought to you when Jesus Christ is revealed.

Be sober and alert. Your enemy the devil, like a roaring lion, is on the prowl looking for someone to devour.

So then we must not sleep as the rest, but must stay alert and sober.

It trains us to reject godless ways and worldly desires and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age,

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Husbands, in the same way, treat your wives with consideration as the weaker partners and show them honor as fellow heirs of the grace of life. In this way nothing will hinder your prayers.

"Therefore stay alert, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come.

Therefore stay alert, because you do not know the day or the hour.

Then he said to them, "My soul is deeply grieved, even to the point of death. Remain here and stay awake with me."

Watch out! Stay alert! For you do not know when the time will come.

Then he came and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, "Simon, are you sleeping? Couldn't you stay awake for one hour?

"But be on your guard so that your hearts are not weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and the worries of this life, and that day close down upon you suddenly like a trap.

So he said to them, "Why are you sleeping? Get up and pray that you will not fall into temptation!"

Rejoice in hope, endure in suffering, persist in prayer.

With every prayer and petition, pray at all times in the Spirit, and to this end be alert, with all perseverance and requests for all the saints.

Be devoted to prayer, keeping alert in it with thanksgiving.

You, however, be self-controlled in all things, endure hardship, do an evangelist's work, fulfill your ministry.

(Look! I will come like a thief! Blessed is the one who stays alert and does not lose his clothes so that he will not have to walk around naked and his shameful condition be seen.)

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So they made their father drunk that night as well, and the younger one came and had sexual relations with him. But he was not aware that she had sexual relations with him and then got up.

Therefore stay alert, because you do not know the day or the hour.

Watch out! Stay alert! For you do not know when the time will come.

For here we have no lasting city, but we seek the city that is to come.